As I came across Sanne Dekker's post about dancing bots, it immediately caught my interest. Not only because I love to express myself by dancing in various ways but also because my roommate is currently on tour with a show that includes drones that interact with the dancers on stage. In Sanne's description, she formulates dancing as a form of non-verbal communication and self-expression. I can relate to this description when dancing alone or with a dance partner. One thing that I love to do is ecstatic dance. This allows me to connect with myself and express myself and consequently connect with other people as well in a non-verbal way.  Last year, I followed multiple tango lessons, where you have to rely on your dance partner to dance. You have to feel the connection between two bodies and only then, as you lean a little bit forward to one another, you can start to move synchronically without learned dance passes. 

In Sanne's description, she also talks about dancing as a form of entertainment for the public. Either in social events or in shows. I can relate to this as well as I love to see dance performances, such as ballet, modern and in combination with technology. In the examples from Sanne, the robot is dancing by itself. But I am also very interested in the co-dancing between bots/technology and humans. In the following example, I will describe the show of my roommate as a form of entertainment where humans are dancing with bots. After that, I will come up with some hypothetical work that allows oneself to connect with a non-human dance partner.

Advantages of BoogieBot 

What is to be expected?